About time we had some pictures!

I was just thinking (I can hear my friend in the back of my head saying..."Prove it!"  LOL) I haven't had many pictures posted for a while, so here are a few pics  from my classroom...they are random snippets of the work my children have been creating but please enjoy (or scoff!).

Who wrote these statements???



One of our descriptive stories with a self portrait.



Brandon's cat.

Virtual Learning Network - a site for Teachers.

As I mentioned earlier, I have recently joined another site for teachers called the Virtual Learning Network.  Here we can share ideas, talk to other educators and eventually enrol children from our classes to learn from the Virtual Network - by other teachers!  Why not go and visit it yourself!?!

http://www.vln.school.nz/

You will need a gmail address to join (it makes things a lot easier to enter!  Don't ask me why!?!)
  :)

Weebly-it!

I have been playing with a new site to share information with our parents and families...Weebly.com

Our class already has a wikispace that we use quite a bit as we have YouTube clips that we can sing along to like our 'letter' or 'maths' songs as well as a page for each of our children from my class, to show off art work, stories, them working on activities and so on.

Why Weebly?  We needed our parents and families to be able to load the class sites quickly and not get bored waiting for images and information to appear.  Hopefully this site is easy to load for our families to view and easy for me to edit information and upload pics.

Fingers crossed!

Click on the link to visit our Weebly site :)     t1-2011.weebly.com

Also, visit our older Wikispace site :)    t1-2011.wikispaces.com

PS  Weebly seems reasonably easy tp use at the moment, but there is not much going on in our site yet! :)

Funny!?!

Funny is not when you are trying to tackle learning about 'bling bling' for your wikispace and you think you are 'da bomb' AND... you still can't get your pens to work on the Interactive White Board!  Yep and for the past 2 weeks!  Am past thinking "...is it you (the Board components) or is it me?  Please talk to me! (no not the reader, but the board)".

Oh what have I done, what have I done???

Well, I haven't been here for such a long time but personally, I  have made lots of moves towards getting 'up with the play' where ICT and web 2.0 tools is concerned (but I am certainly no where near being an 'expert' using everything I have learnt, in a constructive way in the classroom). I've recently joined another web sharing site for educators and people alike...at 'virtuallea rningnetwork.com'.  In doing so, this very action has prompted me in  to returning here to re-start my 'journey recording' that I left in 2009!  Yes, that long ago!   Well...here goes..... :)

School Pics

Haven't been back here for a while!

Well, I haven't been back here for a while and I guess...what's new with my learning? Nothing I can rightly brag about! Recently, I've looked at 'Photopeach' as a slideshow similar to 'Flickr' - I like 'Photopeach'. The whole 'Inquiry Learning' subject (inside my head) is moving along at a reasonable pace that I can follow and try new ways of doing things. We finished a 'sea' topic last term and my children and I had a blast with this topic (loads of talking, sharing ideas and neat art - well I hope they had a blast!). Working with an IWB isn't as tortuous as it used to be (its programme was n't working as well as it should have and for a while there, I was on the brink of despair and ready to give in to kicking the board...I didn't! Instead we forgave each other and our relationship has been better (someone came in and fixed it too)!

Anyway, here are a couple of pics showing our class topic wall and our class art wall that was prepared for our school's Folk Dance and Art Day.